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Friday, December 21, 2012

Feeling Elfish

Being the Friday before Christmas I knew this day would be a busy one. Planning ahead, I hit the gym extra early. Once I got home the packing began. Gathering up all the containers from the three freezers, I wondered if I'd have enough cookie bags. Although I'd been dreading the packaging, for some reason, this year I am ready to share the cookies with even more eagerness and excitement. Buying the coolest decorative boxes for only $1.70 each, I lined them with wax paper and got to work. I have to admit, I felt a little "elfish"...HO! HO! HO!

OH MY! I have baked nothing! Nope..nothing. I should at least bake some cookies. My daughters have taken over all the cookie baking..and I do mean ALL!. That's what happens when you get into your 70's I guess..and I admit I am grateful.My job is just to fix up the house and make it pretty for them to celebrate in. They give goodies as Christmas gifts..so..I don't do it anymore.WOW..now that IS a lot of baking! Your friends and family are going to have a wonderful Christmas.Love to you this Christmas season.Mona

Now that's sure a lot of cookie baking and Grenville was getting a cold glass of milk ready waiting for a cookie sample to come through his PC. He also did some baking and his chocolate chip mint cookies were wonderful. Hope we have some left for next week...maybe we should stop be your place. Grenville said he would bring the milk or eggnog.

That is a great idea ~ boxes for putting the cookies into.. Hope you don't mind I'm going to do that too.. Wish I was receiving one of those boxes..you made a ton of cookies...and whoever gets them are going to be so blessed.. Have a great Christmas..ta ta for now from Iowa:)

BE GRATEFUL...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.~ Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, it is the parent of all others.